But in the end it's only a passing thing, this shadow; even darkness must pass.
Samwise
But that's not the way of it with the tales that really mattered, or the ones that stay in the mind. Folk seem to have been just landed in them, usually their paths were laid that way, as you put it. But I expect they had lots of chances, like us, of turning back, only they didn't. And if they had, we shouldn't know, because they'd have been forgotten.
Samwise
It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish.
Samwise
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